Reveal system

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A modern system of plant taxonomy, the Reveal system of plant classification was drawn up by the botanist J.L. Reveal (1941- ), professor emeritus at the Norton Brown Herbarium, Maryland (see his cv).

The last update of the system was made in 1999. The author later joined the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and contributed to the APG II system.

It is available online in lecture notes (dated 1999) at the Norton Brown Herbarium, Maryland (with an extensive listing of synonyms, both nomenclatural and taxonomic, for each name in the system): 1, 2, 3 4, 4, 6 7, 8, 9 10.

According to these lecture notes the main groups in the system are

In more detail: